I working on a web site for a friend who wants to get lots of feedback on good and bad places to eat, services, etc. I've tried yahoo and ixwebhosting and neither one really works for what she wants to do. Does anyone have a recommendation for a web host that handles multiple forms well?

Any web host should be able to handle multiple forms. A form is just some simple HTML.

Simple HTML along with maybe CGI/PHP or what-have-you. Most hosts will be able to handle this.

Yes, HTML forms are client side only - but you'll probably want to use a CGI script for parsing the form output, so script execution should be allowed from the host you chose.

Most hosts who offer php/mysql should be able to handle what you are looking for. The only case I can see a real complication is if you have poor php coding into mysql quieries. This could cause high resource usage. Just as long as the scripts are written well you shouldn't have any problems finding a good host.

mhowland, I think all the hosting service providers can do it for you. Just depends on which language you (your friend) are using such as PHP, PERL, ASP or JSP.... The form you can see is just HTML, on client side.

My problem with forms has been that I'm designing my pages on Dreamweaver using a Mac. The Dreamweaver book I have said that I needed to get the CGI script from the web host since I'm not a CGI programer. IXWebhosting doens't seem to be able to handle the fact that I'm doing it on a Mac. I can't even get the FTP files to upload. Yahoo said they couldn't provide the code and referred me to PageMaker. However, their link to PageMaker only is good for Windows.

Well your web host is not going to do custom programming for you. Either find someone else to do the coding, learn to do it yourself, or search for a script at http://hotscripts.com

First of all...every host will be handle to this. Those who can't shouldn't be offering web hosting. Yes...that may sound radical but if a host cannot support simple cgi/php forms, then they should stop pretending they are webhosts and work in McDonalds somewhere.

Hosting is much much more technical than making simple cgi forms work properly. In case of cgi, all the customer needs todo is make sure the Action part of the html form points to that cgi script.... formmail.cgi does that out of the box, and so do zillions of others.

Again...its not technical...anyone who cannot support you on this is giving you a lot of bull. Of course, if the host says "it works but figure it yourself"...then that's only bad support, nothing technical about it.

gee, what kind of hosting has he been with?